Patio Furniture: Red, White or Blue

I don't know if I'm being inspired by our neighbors to the south of us, but my three choices for backyard patio furniture were Red, White or Blue!!

I mentioned in multiple posts this summer that we were searching for patio furniture. We simply couldn't find anything we loved, or more specifically anything we loved in our price range!
Patio furniture is SERIOUSLY pricey.
So in true Mini  Manor fashion I took to craigslist in search of more reasonably priced options. I came across this purple guy and while I wasn't crazy about the purple (okay honestly it made me cringe) the simple lines and $30 price tag swayed me and we were in the car on our way to pick it up!

It's a little bit smaller then I was hoping to find and in pretty rough shape but it's halfway through summer and beggars can't be choosers!

 Like I mentioned at the start of this post, for some reason I had it in my head that the bench would be red, white or blue. I don't think white would have covered the purple very well, and I felt like red would be too dramatic in our serene backyard. So blue it was, NAVY BLUE to be exact.

 We used Rust-oleum's Navy Blue, it's suppose to be good for the outdoors, I'll let you know how it holds up to our Vancouver RAIN!

 We still need some cushions and an umbrella, but so far we've only spent $43, and I haven't seen anything in that price range half as cute as our new navy bench!!! haha
p.s. Check out those little wheels . . . too cute!